[PAA-Discuss] Review of "An InconvenientTruth" by Al Gore

[Ron and Kris Graham]

That sounds absolutely wonderful, Sherry! Why haven't you mentioned anything
about this before? Where exactly is the land located in Hempstead? I
wouldn't mind driving out there to take a look at it. What is the American
Bodhi Center? What is the Chan/Pureland group? Please inform and thanks so
much!

Kris

-----Original Message-----
From: Sherry Glover [mailto:sglover001 at houston.rr.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 12:41 PM
To: 'Randy Scott'; Discuss at paa-tx.org
Subject: Re: [PAA-Discuss] Review of "An InconvenientTruth" by Al Gore

Would you like to have a conversation with a lay member of a Chan/Pureland
group? (That would be me, Randy)
My primary teacher has managed to acquire over 500 acres of land in
Hempstead and is developing an American Bodhi Center- I was out there on
Sunday looking at it.
The plan is going somewhere, and has been for some years now. The property
is beautiful, the purpose for half of it will be to leave it pristine, and a
conservatory and classes can come to look at nature, the flora and fauna of
the forest. The rest of the plan is to establish a center whereby the old
folks can live helping the younger ones with their children, they can die
being cared for by those kids parents, and the community will live with
fresh air, clean water, organic food, and no trees uprooted. 
It has only just begun to develop. If you're interested, let me know. 
Perhaps it is in that 2% you mentioned.

-----Original Message-----
From: Discuss-bounces at paa-tx.org [mailto:Discuss-bounces at paa-tx.org] On
Behalf Of Randy Scott
Sent: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 8:16 AM
To: Discuss at paa-tx.org
Subject: [PAA-Discuss] Review of "An InconvenientTruth" by Al Gore

I've already been thru all these conversations with religious/monastic
groups, including a very
large internet-based community of Zen/Taoists. My experience has been that
such plans rarely ever
go anywhere. Only a tiny minority of rugged individualists, already having
personality traits and
lifestyle experience away from an urban setting, will actually follow thru.
Half the members
believe it will be a utopian field of daisys full of butterflys and rainbows
and the other half
are already eager to live in a tent all winter and eat worms to prove how
tough they are. Of those
two groups= only about 2% of each actually do it.

Randy


--- Anne del Prado <freespirit_41 at hotmail.com> wrote:
The concept was using the skills and resources the people in the community
have to provide as much
as possible "in house". Some groups have a few people work outside the
community, to obtain some
green paper for whatever might be needed. The 'needs' excercise is to make
sure that people get an
idea of what 'outside of the tapeworm' would look like. That it is not like
a picnick with a
smaller TV set. 
The skills excercise can show us how we already could get things and
services 'off the grid'.
Someone knows someone who knows someone, who does ......
Anne


---------------------------------
Can you go underground in Houston?  Can you live "off the grid" here?

Randy, how do you know about the cabins in Alaska, etc?

Curious...

LOL, Randy!! I like the underground concept, just NOT the rat part!! :-) Ron
and I have talked about going "underground" if the shit hits the fan in or
before November. It may well come to pass. 

Kris

-----Original Message-----
There are thousands living in cabins in the woods of Alaska - far enough off
the trail to not be
found, but still close enough to have an informal community of their own.
Similar situations in
western deserts, mountains of Idaho/Oregon, mountains of northern Mexico,
etc.

It's a tuff life - I don't think I could do it at my age the way my health
has already
deteriorated, may have to look for ways to live "underground" like rats in
the sewers.

Randy

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